Exploring the causal structures of almost commutative geometries

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.010MaRDI QIDQ2447867zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Franco, Michał Eckstein

Publication date 29 April 2014

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8225, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2014/010/index.html

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zbMATH Keywords

casual structureLorentzian spectral triplenoncommutative geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Linearly ordered topological spaces, generalized ordered spaces, and partially ordered spaces (54F05) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34)

Abstract: We investigate the causal relations in the space of states of almost commutative Lorentzian geometries. We fully describe the causal structure of a simple model based on the algebra $mathcalS(mathbb{R}^{1,1})otimes{M}_2(mathbbC)$, which has a non-trivial space of internal degrees of freedom. It turns out that the causality condition imposes restrictions on the motion in the internal space. Moreover, we show that the requirement of causality favours a unitary evolution in the internal space.

Review text

Noncommutative geometry in its original formulation provides a significant generalization of Riemannian differential geometry. For physical applications, Lorentzian geometry is preferred rather than the Riemannian one. The casual structure is one of the most important elements of Lorentzian geometry which is absent in Riemannian theory. The casual structure is a partial order relation defined between the points of a Lorentzian manifold. It plays a crucial part in determining which of the space-time events can be linked by physical signals. The generalization of the casual structure to noncommutative space is not straightforward due to the lack of events (points) there. Possible counterparts of points in noncommutative geometry are pure states on algebras. The purpose of the paper under review is to investigate the properties of generalized casual structures for a class of noncommutative spaces described by almost commutative geometries.

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